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longship

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6. IF!

Reply to Warpy (Reply #4)

Mon May 15, 2017, 01:48 AM

May 2017

No physicist worth their education takes the scam EM drive seriously... because it violates every principle of basic physics. If one is going to propose that ones new spacedrive upsets basic physics one had better damned well have new basic physics to back it up!

In other words, EM drive is rubbish.

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Not much if the Em Drive actually works when it's tested in low orbit later this year Warpy May 2017 #4

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IF! longship May 2017 #6

It might be Warpy May 2017 #7

What if, Ghost Dog May 2017 #9

Huh? longship May 2017 #11

Newton works perfectly well to get space probes to Pluto, and beyond. longship May 2017 #10

Here. About wacko warp drives and EM drives. longship May 2017 #12

45 years ago the last man left the moon. Jack-o-Lantern May 2017 #2

It should have been Moon Base Alpha in 1999. longship May 2017 #13

Easy for him to say, he's not going to have to do it Warpy May 2017 #3

Exactly. In fact they better justify why a manned Mars mission is significantly more useful at still_one May 2017 #14

Sorry Buzz, you're wrong... LunaSea May 2017 #8